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The front-right tire of my car has 1 PSI higher pressure than the front-left
(self.dull_mens_club)
Nah. Just one big one. The eighth wonder.
Can you get bird flu by sharing needles with a bluejay?
Great article and just as relevant today. Probably more so, honestly.
Even in the software engineering profession, there's a lot of that kind of illiteracy going on. Not to the extent of thinking their computer is off because the monitor is off. But for instance:
- Not thinking to narrow down the problem they're having to whether it's a problem with their build script(s) or a problem with their IDE. ("It's got red squigglies" means it won't build, right? If I had a nickel for every time a developer on my team came to me with red squigglies saying they'd tried X, Y, and Z changes to the build script without even trying to run a build from the terminal to see if that worked (and when they did try that at my suggestion, it did build just fine), I'd've invested in a piggy bank by now.)
- Writing/modifying code, but just having no idea (or desire to have any idea) how to start an application from scratch, tweak any of the code/processes that deploy the application (let alone build new processes for deploying), troubleshoot at least some issues with dependencies/libraries (for instance, by consulting the source code of FOSS dependencies), etc.
- Spending hours writing a web app in Java or whatever to do some simple thing that would be a 30-second Bash one-liner. (Or 10-minute Bash one-liner including learning curve.) Just because they don't think it's... feasible?... to learn how to write, say, a for loop in Bash.
- Writing/maintaining the back end of web apps daily but having zero understanding of the HTTP protocol or JS.
And of course, this isn't everyone. And I don't expect anyone who has just finished their college degree to show up to their first day of work knowing how to generate their own certificate authority using OpenSSL on the command line in less than 5 minutes, fully understanding every step of the process. But the above examples are all pretty senior folks. And some folks come straight out of college and pick that sort of stuff up extremely quickly. So, it's not just about how much experience they have.
Yeah, no. If I want to learn fiction, I'll watch Battlestar Galactica or something.
Yeah, it makes sense that if you teach someone to use a hammer (train them to kill people), there's a likelihood they're going to view at least some problems as nails (they're going to kill people.)
Well, yes and no. But mostly yes. But kinda no. It's complicated.
Everybody, including both the "pOlItiCaL lEfT" in the U.S. and the MAGA Republicans can see... shit's kinda fucked, right? The whole world is kinda floundering right now, and the U.S. more so than many of the other parts that think of themselves as "developed" and "world powers."
And the way in which the U.S. is borked is one that hits pretty close to home for people. People's jobs are on shaky ground. And even most people with job security get ridiculously low pay. Meanwhile, the price of things like housing and medical care continues to climb.
And what passes as the "left wing" in the U.S. recognizes that the root of most of those problems is capitalism. All while capitalism is continuing to churn out propaganda in its own defense, convincing people that their jobs aren't tenuous because billionaires are assholes but rather because Mexicans are going to steal your jobs. And that worker pay isn't low because billionaires are assholes, but because the EPA is putting an undue burden on your employer, making it impossible for poor him with his seven yachts to pay you a living wage.
So, you do have to realize there is a massive propaganda campaign going on in the U.S. (not exclusively in the U.S., but it's gotten a lot of traction in the U.S.) constantly feeding people in the U.S. racist, hate-filled, fascist conspiracy theories.
But it's also the case that some people fall for it (and perpetuate it) and others don't. And in that regard, it's not as if you can put all the blame on the corporations and leave none for individual hate-filled, racist, fascist assholes.
But, it is the case that Trump and the right wing have managed to convert the discontent into support specifically for Trump via racism and hate. Where as the left(er) has the same discontent, but no love for Trump, and arguably much much less hate and racism.
So, I guess, again, the answer is "yes and no; it's complicated."
And of course all the above is a massive oversimplification as well.
Yes. Better is the NEO-PI.
Just about everyone looks better when they smile.
You're the one who brought looks into it.
Cheese isn't authentic asian food.
There are definitely more hydrogen atoms in a mole of water than stars in the Milky Way.
The Milky Way has somewhere between 100 and 400 billion stars according to Wikipedia (1*10^11 to 4*10^11). A mole of water has 6.022*10^23 molecules in it, each of which has two hydrogen atoms in it for a total of 1.2044*10^24 hydrogen atoms.
10^24 / 10^11 = 10^13 which is ten trillion. So, a mole of water has roughly ten trillion times as many hydrogen atoms as the Milky Way has stars.
This image is the first appearance of the character of Popeye.
Other things going into the public domain as of the beginning of 2025 can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_in_public_domain
We all know about the linear_extrude(...) function that turns 2d things into 3d things.
I sometimes have found myself wishing for a similar function which could make a more rounded, result.
Just to illustrate what I'm hoping to achieve, my dream solution would, given this 2d outline:
would give me something like the following:
Just to further illustrate, the code I used to generate outline above:
hull() {
for (i=[-1:1])
translate([i*15, 0])
circle(d=10);
}
And the "pillowed" version that shows the desired result giving the above outline:
$fn=64;
rotate([0, 90, 0])
linear_extrude(30, center=true)
scale([4, 10])
difference() {
circle(d=1);
translate([0.5, 0])
square(1, center=true);
}
for (i = [-1, 1])
translate([i*15, 0, 0])
scale([10, 10, 4])
difference() {
sphere(d=1);
translate([0, 0, -0.5])
cube(1, center=true);
}
The outline I actually want to pillow for my particular current use case looks like this:
(Credit to this person on Printables for the Talavera tile pattern.)
I'm hoping there's a way to do this I'm not thinking of, or a library I'm not familiar with. The example above makes an elliptical curve, but I'm not married to elliptical in particular. Anything somewhat similar would be fine.
Thanks in advance for any help!
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Yeah, I'm planning to switch from Arch to Gentoo. Systemd isn't the only reason, but it's a big one.
(Yes, I know about Artix, but it's... kindof a Frankenstein's monster, still mostly depending on the Arch repos and still with certain relics of Systemd. Or at least it was when I last tried it.)